Rothschild's Violin (1996)
1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich completes the orchestration, but in 1948 is advised to suppress the opera, during Stalin's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans". Jewish motifs enter Shostakovich's own work.
Cast
Shostakovich
Benjamin Fleischmann
Marfa
Bronza
Rothschild
Shakhes
Fleischmann's Daughter
The Minister
Moishe Vainberg
Aunt Nadezhda
Mme Shostakovich
Maxim Shostakovich
Crew
Director
Writer
Director of Photography
Editor
Assistant Art Director
